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Posted by Dani @ May 19, 2008
Autodesk, the company behind the digital sketching program Sketchbook Pro, recently posted an interview and tutorial from digital painting master Bobby Chiu. There is also a time-lapse video of the painting on the Imaginism Studios blog. Chiu narrates the video and talks about some of his experiences as an artist. He also does a good […]
Posted by Dani @ March 17, 2008
Check out this latest tutorial from children’s illustrator Carlyn Beccia. Her blog features other digital painting tidbits, so make sure to give it a look. Carlyn’s main tools of choice are Painter and Photoshop.
See the post here.
Posted by Dani @ March 7, 2008
Kazu Kibuishi recently posted a new tutorial showing the “flatting” process for his wonderful book Amulet. It is a great resource if you are interested in some of the basic digital processes that go into making a graphic novel. Also take a moment to check out his previous article, The Making of Copper, which is […]
Posted by Dani @ February 4, 2008
Check out this web page featuring “100 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Beautiful Art” on 3DTotal.com. It features a bunch of thumbnail images, each one showing more info when you roll over them.
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Posted by Dani @ February 4, 2008
Illustrator Maryn Roos (the “Baroness”) just posted a nice long step-by-step of one of her illustrations. Her blog is sprinkled with all sorts of tips and tutorials, and she also works in other programs like Flash and Painter.
Posted by Dani @ February 1, 2008
Joe Bluhm is an illustrator and caricaturist who makes a video podcast about his digital painting techniques. He just released this video. Check out his podcast page or YouTube profile for the full series, and to view previous episodes.
Posted by Dani @ January 28, 2008
Mondrianum is a (Mac and Leopard-only) plugin that puts Adobe’s Kulers into Apple’s color picker. Now, catch the tutorial over on Bittbox about how to get it to work nice with Photoshop.
Posted by Dani @ January 25, 2008
I use Adobe Illustrator’s brush tool a lot to make line drawings, but I usually just use the standard round brush. I’ve never really played around with creating my own brushes before. Well, I just ran across this tutorial on Veerle’s Blog that might be interesting to try. She outlines how to make simple art […]